Not just for PWP's but armed  with this information you might avoid adding to
your own health  problems or be able to help someone else with theirs.

HEALTH & WELLNESS  SEEKERS:
HERE IS YET ANOTHER (ANECDOTAL) SOURCE REVEALING  MORE ON THE HEALTH RISKS OF
ASPARTAME. I HAVE ADDED "DO YOU USE PRODUCTS  CONTAINING ASPARTAME?" TO MY
NEW PATIENT INTAKE FORM. MY CHIEF SCIENTIFIC  REFERENCE THAT I UTILIZE IS THE
BOOK LISTED BY RUSSELL BLAYLOCK, MD,  "EXCITOTOXINS, THE TASTE THAT KILLS",
WHICH ALSO LISTS THE MANY HIDDEN FORMS OF  GLUTAMATE.
Jeffrey P. Clark, DC
_www.DrClarkNutrition.com_ (http://www.drclarknutrition.com/)

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Hi, Friends, hope you find  this interesting.  Maybe you know someone
who needs this information. I  have had friends who were having
symptoms, had all kinds of tests and were  taking all kinds of
medications, and when they stopped consuming Aspartame,  the symptoms
disappeared. Hope this helps you or someone you know and love.

Written by Lisa Zak Physician Credentialer University Pediatric  Associates,
Inc. Women & Children's Hospital of Buffalo

In October of 2001, a friend's sister  started getting very sick.  She  had
stomach spasms and she was having  a hard time getting around.  Walking was a
major chore. It took everything  she had just to get out of bed, she was in so
much  pain.  By March  2002, she had undergone several tissue and muscle
biopsies and was on 24  various prescription medications. The doctors could not
determine what was wrong  with her.

Because of her pain and sickness, she was sure she was dying.  She put her
house, bank accounts, life insurance, etc., in her oldest  daughter's name, and
made sure that her younger children were to be  taken care of.  She also
wanted a last hoorah, so she planned a trip  to FL (basically  in a wheelchair) for
March 22nd.

On March 19th  her brother called to ask how her most recent tests  went, and
she said  they didn't find anything on the test, but they  believe she had
MS. He  recalled an E-mail article I might have sent  to him and asked his
sister  if she drank diet pop?  She told him that  she did. As a matter of  fact,
she was getting ready to crack one open  that moment. He told her not  to open
it, to stop drinking the diet  pop, and then E-mailed her the  aspartame
articles sister called him  within 32 hours after the phone  conversation and told
him she had  stopped drinking the diet pop AND she  could walk!  The muscle
spasms  went away.  She said she didn't  feel 100% but she sure felt a lot
better. She told him she was going to  her doctor with this article and would
call him when she got home.  Well, she called, and said her doctor  was amazed!
He is going to  call all of his MS patients to find out if  they consumed
artificial  sweeteners of any kind.

In a nutshell, she was being poisoned by the  Aspartame in the diet  soda and
literally dying a slow and miserable death.  When she got to  FL March 22nd,
all she had to take was one pill, and  that was a pill  for the Aspartame
poisoning.  She is well on her way  to a complete recovery and she is walking.  No
wheelchair!

This  article saved her life:  If it says "SUGAR FREE" on the label, DO NOT
EVEN  THINK ABOUT IT! "ASPARTAME," is marketed as 'NutraSweet', 'Equal', and
'Spoonful'. In a keynote address by the EPA, it was announced that in the
United  States in 2001 there was an epidemic of multiple sclerosis and  systemic
lupus. It was difficult to determine exactly what toxin was  causing this to be
rampant.

Why Aspartame is so dangerous:  When the temperature of this  sweetener
exceeds 86 degrees F., the  wood alcohol in ASPARTAME  converts to formaldehyde and
then to formic  acid, which in turn  causes metabolic acidosis.  Formic acid
is the  poison found in the  sting of fire ants. The methanol toxicity mimics,
 among other  conditions, multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus.  Many
people were  being diagnosed in error.  Although multiple sclerosis is  not a death
 sentence, methanol toxicity is.

Systemic lupus has  become almost as rampant as multiple sclerosis,
especially with Diet Coke  and Diet Pepsi drinkers.  The victim  usually does not know
that the  Aspartame is the culprit.  He or she  continues its use; irritating
 the lupus to such a degree that it may become a  life-threatening
condition.  We have seen patients with systemic  lupus become  asymptotic, once taken
off diet sodas.

In cases of those diagnosed with  Multiple Sclerosis (when in reality,  the
disease is methanol toxicity),  most of the symptoms disappear.   Many cases
have been seen where  vision loss returned and hearing loss  improved markedly.
This also  applies to cases of tinnitus and  fibromyalgia. If you are using
ASPARTAME,  NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc., and you suffer from fibromyalgia
symptoms,  spasms,  shooting, pains, numbness in your legs, cramps, vertigo,
dizziness,  headaches, tinnitus, joint pain, unexplainable depression,
anxiety  attacks, slurred speech, blurred vision, or memory loss... you may  have
ASPARTAME poisoning!  Is it  reversible?"  Yes! Yes! Yes!  STOP drinking diet
sodas and be alert  for Aspartame on food labels.  Many products are fortified
with it.   This is a serious problem.  A doctor remarked that so many people
seemed to have been  symptomatic for MS during his recent visit to a hospice.
A nurse stated  that six of her friends, who were heavy  Diet  Coke addicts,
had all  been diagnosed with MS.  Doesn't this seem  beyond coincidence?

Diet soda is NOT a diet product!  It is a chemically altered,  multiple
SODIUM (salt) and SPARTAME-containing product that actually  makes you crave
carbohydrates.  It is far more likely to make you  GAIN weight! These products also
contain formaldehyde, which stores  in the fat cells, particularly in the hips
and thighs.  Formaldehyde  is an absolute toxin and is used primarily to
preserve "tissue  specimens."  Many products we use every day contain this
chemical but  we SHOULD NOT store it IN our body! Dr. H.J. Roberts stated in his
lectures that, once free of the "diet products" and with no  significant increase
in exercise; his patients lost an average of 19  pounds over a trial period.

Aspartame is especially dangerous for  diabetics.  We found that some
physicians, who believed that they had  a patient with retinopathy, in  fact had
symptoms caused by Aspartame.  The Aspartame drives the  blood sugar out of
control.  Thus  diabetics may suffer acute memory  loss due to the fact that
aspartic acid  and phenylalanine are
NEUROTOXIC when taken without the other amino acids  necessary for a good
balance. Treating diabetes is about BALANCE.  Especially with diabetics,  the
Aspartame passes the blood/brain  barrier and it then deteriorates the
neurons of the brain; causing various  levels of brain damage,  seizures,
depression, manic depression, panic  attacks, uncontrollable anger and rage. Consumption
of Aspartame causes these  same symptoms in non-diabetics, as well.

Documentation and observation  also reveal that thousands of children
diagnosed with ADD and ADHD have  had complete turnarounds in their  behavior when
these chemicals have been  removed from their diet.  So  called "behavior
modification  prescription drugs" (Ritalin and  others) are no longer needed. Truth
be  told, they were never NEEDED  in the first place!  Most of these
children were being "poisoned" on  a daily basis with the very foods that  were
"better for them than  sugar."  It is also suspected that the  Aspartame in
thousands of  pallets of diet Coke and diet Pepsi consumed by  men and women
fighting in the Gulf War may be partially to blame for the  well-known  Gulf War
Syndrome.

Dr. Roberts warns that it can cause  birth defects, i.e. mental  retardation,
if taken at the time of conception  and during early  pregnancy.  Children
are especially at risk for  neurological  disorders and should NEVER be given
artificial sweeteners.  There are
many different case histories to relate of children  suffering grand  mal
seizures and other neurological disturbances due to  the use of  NutraSweet.
Unfortunately, it is not always easy to  convince people  that Aspartame is to
blame for their child's illness.  Stevia, which
is a sweet herb, NOT A MANUFACTURED ADDITIVE, helps in the  metabolism  of
sugar, which would be ideal for diabetics.  It has now  been  approved as a
dietary supplement by the FDA. It is known that for  many years the FDA outlawed
this "true sweet food," due to their loyalty  to MONSANTO Chemical Company.

Books on this subject are available:  EXCITOTOXINS:THE TASTE THAT KILLS
written by Dr. Russell Blayblock,  (Health Press 1-800-643-2665) and DEFENSE
AGAINST ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE - written  by  DR H. J. Roberts, also a diabetic
specialist.  These two doctors  will  soon be posting a position paper with case
histories on the deadly  effects of Aspartame on the Internet. According to the
Conference of the  American College of

Physicians, "We are talking about a plague of  neurological diseases directly
caused by the use of this deadly poison."  Herein lies the  problem: There
were Congressional Hearings when  Aspartame was included in 100  different
products and strong objection was  made concerning its use. Since this initial
hearing, there have been two  subsequent hearings  and still, nothing has been
done.  The drug and  chemical lobbies have  very deep pockets.  Sadly, MONSANTO'S
patent on  Aspartame has  EXPIRED.

There are now over 5,000 products on the  market that contain this  deadly
chemical and there will now be thousands  more introduced.   Everybody wants a
"piece of the Aspartame pie."  I assure you that  MONSANTO, the creator of
Aspartame, knows how  deadly it is.  And  isn't it ironic that MONSANTO funds,
among others,  the American
Diabetes Association, the American Dietetic Association and the  Conference
of the American College of Physicians? This has been recently exposed  in the
New York Times.
These Associations cannot criticize any additives or  convey their  link to
MONSANTO because they take money from the food  industry and  are required to
endorse their products. Senator Howard  Metzenbaum  wrote and presented a bill
that would require label warnings on  products containing Aspartame,
especially regarding pregnant women,
children and infants.  The bill would also institute independent  studies on
the known dangers and the problems existing in the general  population
regarding seizures, changes in brain chemistry,  neurological changes and behavioral
symptoms.  The bill was killed.
It is known that the powerful drug and chemical lobbies are  responsible for
this, letting loose the hounds of disease and death  on an unsuspecting and
uninformed public.

Well, you're informed  now!   YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW!!  Please print this
out and/or  e-mail to your family and  friends. They have a right to know, too!


Lisa Zak Physician Credentialer University Pediatric Associates, Inc.  Women
& Children's Hospital of Buffalo UPA Billing 219 Bryant Street  Buffalo, NY
14222 Phone 716-878-7000 ext. 6032 Fax  716-878-1572

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